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Worst PC hardware trends that disappeared (www.xda-developers.com)
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[–] [email protected] 90 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

This is kind of a shit article. Most of these are just old hardware that eventually had modern improvements, not "trends."

A "trend" is cold cathode black lights inside the case, not a silly naming scheme for CPU revisions.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Ya acrylic side cases where a trend, maybe 3D monitors but everything else in there was just specific technology that has been replaced by better technology..

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The blower gpu fans were definitely a trend. I remember buying third party coolers and strapping 120mm fans onto them with zip ties.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Blower fans had a technical reason to exist that isn’t very relevant anymore.

It used to be to keep the card profile low so you could have other PCI card slots populated. However these days everything including Wifi can be found pre populated on the motherboard. It is rare you put in any additional PCI cards in modern personal systems.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

ATX boards had most relevant slots below that already, especially due to SLI / CF being a thing at that time. I know because I used wlan and audio cards back then - that is with the third party cooler + fans, which blocked like 3 slots.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

IDK I would say 3d monitors are a trend that died pretty hard

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

A trend implies a level of popularity. There was none.

It's ultimately just failed (or "pre-successful") technology that wasn't able to do the job well enough at a sufficient price to develop a market.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I love my 3 monitor setup 🥲

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

3D monitors, not 3 monitors.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

My mistake. Misread the comment while at work